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All posts by Purnima Valiathan

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Oct'25

How Instructional Designers Can Improve Knowledge Retention

The Invisible Enemy of Learning Every instructional designer has faced that haunting moment — a beautifully designed course, engaging visuals, …

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15

Oct'25

Mastering Versatility in Instructional Design

Instructional design is often described as a blend of art and science. But in practice, it’s much more like juggling.  …

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Sep'25

The Role of Instructional Designers in the Age of AI – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series we looked at how the instructional design landscape has evolved over the years, till …

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Aug'25

The Role of Instructional Designers in the Age of AI – Part 1

Executive Summary As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply embedded in education and workplace learning ecosystems, the role of the instructional …

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May'25

Top 5 Skills You Need to Become an Instructional Designer

The Instructional Designer’s Superpower? Versatility. Instructional design sits at the intersection of education, psychology, design, and technology.  Whether you’re looking …

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May'25

How to Kickstart a Career in Instructional Design After Graduation

So, You’ve Just Graduated… Now What? You’ve crossed the stage, diploma in hand. Maybe you majored in English, Psychology, Education, …

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May'25

Beyond the Certificate: What Budding Instructional Designers Really Need

The Harsh Truth No One Tells You After Your ID Course You’ve completed your Instructional Design course. Maybe even two. …

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May'25

Learning When You Need It: The Secret Weapon of Great Instructional Designers

Real Talk: Most Instructional Designers Learn on the Job Let’s be honest. You can sit through hours of instructional design …

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Oct'23

Personalized Learning

What is personalized learning? Simply put, a school student taking private tuition outside of school is personalized learning. When parents …

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May'22

An Instructional Design Checklist! Yes. Another One!

  Is your ID training addressing these Do’s and Don’ts? If yes, then how? Do you address it as an …

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Aug'21

Needs Assessment – Part 3

Needs assessment is role-wise assessment of skill gaps between the current state and the desired state, and identifying the learning …

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Jul'21

Needs Assessment – Part 2

  An organization wanted to train its entire sales team (junior, mid-level- and senior roles) on a new range of …

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Jul'21

Needs Assessment – Part 1

  Traveling abroad at a short notice was mundane for me as an instructional designer. Most of the time it …

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10

Jun'21

What’s cooking? Training ROI through the cooking glass

I think Indian cooking is a conspiracy. Hatched by whom, I don’t know. There are days when I wish I …

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28

Jan'21

Gamifying Learning

  This trip to Germany, my third abroad, was to be a first in a different sort of way.  It …

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Dec'20

Instructional Writing

    “I mean, how can she? My reviewer tells me I need to improve my writing skills. I was …

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Nov'20

Feedback Styles in Online Courses

Here is a framework that you can use to design feedback for your online courses.  

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12

Nov'20

Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT): A Framework

Teaching and learning virtually in the synchronous mode places a higher cognitive load on the teacher and student as both …

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16

Oct'17

Performance Support Tools: A Framework

What is a Performance Support Tool, and how do we go about designing one? Is there a framework that can …

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Sep'17

7 Frequently Asked Questions About Gamification

Asymptote is an interesting concept in Algebra. It is a straight line that continually approaches a given curve but does …

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Sep'17

The Three Essentials of Microlearning

Microlearning. Learning Bytes. Learning Capsules……These terms have now become synonymous with ELearning. But are we getting it right? Do we …

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Mar'16

GameSpeak: Decoding the Jargon

  Gamification and Game-based Learning – the latest buzzwords in ID circles.   Almost everyone wants to know about this, and …

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Jan'16

Understanding Device-Agnostic Learning Design: Framework

Technical jargon is not new to the e-learning discipline. Given its interdisciplinary nature, borrowing from learning, motivation, training, technology, management, …

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